Occultists are Born Again! – Ugep, Nigeria – Day 5

Occultists Born Again

Another great Gospel campaign has come to an end and, as always, we feel mixed emotions.  We will miss Ugep and it’s people very much, but we rejoice with what God has done here.  It is a miracle.  Ugep is only a small village, but tonight 185,000 people were present and received the Word of God with great joy.  Many thousands were born again including a group of young men who came forward to testify tonight that they were part of an occult movement in the local university, but they have now given their lives to Jesus and renounced occultism! (pictured above)

We have often been told that the local churches are filled with miracle testimonies of what God did in the campaign every Sunday even a year after we are gone.  Im sure this will be the case in Ugep.  There is no doubt in our minds that Jesus has done something extraordinary here:

A well-known local man who has been a lunatic for the past 26 years was instantly healed…the crowd was extatic.  A man crippled for 24 years walked without aid tonight along with a child who was also crippled.  A woman was healed of breast cancer and a man’s paralyzed arm was totally restored.  These miracles and others were just a sampling of the thousands of miracles that took place over the past few days.

In three weeks we will be back in Africa for another Gospel campaign in the city of Numan.  We are burned with a sense of urgency to reap this mighty harvest while it is ripe.  There is no time to waste.  In the words of Leonard Ravenhill, “The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized in the lifetime of the opportunity.” Thank you for continuing to stand shoulder to shoulder with us in this historic harvest of souls.

(Pictures by O. Volyk)